Video: The greatest action sequence of all time

posted at 6:25 pm on August 31, 2010 by Allahpundit

Something sweet to cleanse the palate before The One’s Iraq speech and the final results of the Miller/Murkowski nail-biter up north. Don’t ask me why this is suddenly going viral today. The YouTube gods work in mysterious ways; it is not for us to question, but rather to give thanks.

Two thoughts here. First, no American filmmaker has ever produced a scene this good and no American filmmaker ever will. We’re beat, so let’s accept defeat gracefully. Second, try as I might, I can’t figure out a way to turn this into a “Metaphor of the Day.” It’s simply too convoluted. Maybe something related to ObamaCare, with the Democrats’ midterm hopes represented by the helicopter and the left’s obsession with socialized medicine represented by the jeep? But then … who’s the guy throwing the sword? Paul Ryan, maybe? I’m so confused.

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American team and studio, should pass Allah’s definition. And in some bizarre connection to today, the star gymnast Kurt Thomas missed his Olympic dream because of President Jimmy Carter’s boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Man those dems know how to ruin everybody’s day.

The girl is America.
The helicopter is unstoppable, un-repealable, bipartisan passage of Obamacare.
The jeep guy is obviously Scott Brown.
Bearded man is current Dem leadership, determined to destroy America even if it has to sacrifice itself to do so.
Sword-thrower is the Tea Party movement, or Sarah Palin if you prefer.

I was watching a Boston TV Mag program tonight and they were doing a show on a Boston court. They happened to show an MS13 member who attacked an ex-member with a machete. He got a year. He was facing 12 years. They jury wasn’t allowed to know wither was a gang member.

The Judges interviewed talked about how they love being able to affect people’s lives.

They news just before covered the opening of a $200M high school in Barney Frank’s district. They have 2 theaters and a football stadium that is better than BCs (for example), rock climing walls, pools, the whole 9 yards.

The lovely liberal hypocrites of Newton took $50M from the State to build their Taj Mahal. They single handedly made it near impossible for any of the other 350 cities and towns (many with ancient, dilapidated HSs) to re-build.

You know, I always hated that some people think that a helicopter’s blades can cut through anything.

I mean it’s one thing to say they can cut through the wet-meat-bag that is the human body, but if you hit a tree, or a rock or THE GROUND with a rotor blade, you get a shattered rotor blade.

Not to mention that if you angle your rotors that far forward, the only way you’re going to avoid losing lift is to accelerate horizontally at a high rate… Unless you’re tethered, in which it becomes a race to tear apart your transmission.

That being said, the whole “Cutting of the guy’s arm and saving the girl as the villain falls to a Hans Gruber-esque doom”… that was pretty entertaining.

Metaphor? How ’bout the helicopter is “The Law” which is used as a weapon to threaten. The jeep is the Constitution piloted by my lawyer. The baddie? Oh…he’s my congressman…so that would make the girl my kid’s future and/or my taxes. Easy Peasy.

I don’t care what language that was in – I understood every effin’ word!

Awesome!

I’ll remember that when I go to protest “Machete” – unless there’s a scene where that crusty lawn manicurist slings a machete into two helicopters hovering inverted over a bell-ringing Mexican ice vendor racing his three wheeler through a smoking gap in the Arizona border fence! Then I’ll throw away the sign and buy two tickets!

Allahpundit may be losing his touch, as he cannot come up with a metaphor for this:

The helicopter represents the Ruling Class, leaving the man with the Sword of the Constitution and the hot chick on the ground to represent the Tea Party. The vehicle is the November elecion, the last chance to do anything about the Ruling Class, before the Tea Party is vaquished. The helo gets taken out, but a red-garbed RINO wants to take the hot chick and deny the Tea Party the fruits of good conservative hotness, in a spirit of pure Cornyn-ism.
The Tea Party throws the Sword of the Constitution at the red coated RINO (for the words of the Constitution are written on his heart; the blade can be replaced, the chick, not so much) cleaving the RINO’s arm asunder, leaving him to fall into the Chasm of Progressivism.
Remember, Allahpundit: The Other McCain has always got your back.

Allahpundit you think this is better than Americn films? What planet are you on? This is about the cheesiest piece of crap I have seen in a long time! And by the way having a jeep hit a helicopter has ready been done “IN AN AMERICAN FILM!”